Senior engineering and product design for teams in every Australian capital and the largest New Zealand centres — shipped in your timezone, on the ground when it matters, and built by engineers who actually live here.
We are an Australian engineering and product consultancy with senior staff who travel for the days that matter, ship the rest from a shared working day, and know what AU and NZ procurement actually expects.
Every engagement is staffed with senior engineers and designers who have shipped production software for years. We do not subcontract, offshore, or rotate junior staff in once the statement of work is signed.
We work in Australian and New Zealand timezones — your standups, your sprint cadence, your release windows. The engineer who wrote the code is in the meeting that reviews it, not on a follow-the-sun handover.
Kickoffs, workshops, architecture walkthroughs, on-site reviews and stakeholder sessions — we travel for the days that move the work forward. Two-to-three day blocks at major milestones, not single-coffee fly-ins.
We work in your repo, your CI, your review process and your release cadence. No parallel vendor team, no separate Slack workspace — your engineers and ours under the same standup, accountable to your tech lead.
Eaglum is an Australian company with Australian and New Zealand engineers. All code, infrastructure, designs and documentation belong entirely to your organisation from day one — no vendor lock-in, no licensing tail.
Defence in Adelaide and Canberra, fintech in Sydney and Melbourne, healthtech in Parkville and BioMed City, agritech in Hamilton and Christchurch, govtech in Wellington — we bring real depth where it matters and are honest about where it does not.
Fourteen cities — ten in Australia and four in New Zealand. Each location has a dedicated page with the local industry mix, precincts, procurement context and engagement model. Pick the one closest to your work.
The densest tech and finance market in Australia. Banking, media, B2B SaaS, government and research across the CBD, Surry Hills, North Sydney and Parramatta.
Explore Sydney
Eaglum is headquartered in Melbourne. Fintech, healthtech, govtech and B2B SaaS across the CBD, Cremorne, Richmond, Collingwood and Parkville.
Explore Melbourne
Resources, banking and insurance, healthtech and B2B SaaS. AEST year-round — your working day is the centre of overlap, not the edge of it.
Explore Brisbane
Resources, oil and gas, marine and defence. The longest timezone gap in the country — planned around with async-first cadence and longer on-site blocks.
Explore Perth
Defence and space, healthtech, agribusiness and SaaS. Half-hour ACDT/ACST offset, full working-day overlap. Lot Fourteen, Tonsley, BioMed City.
Explore Adelaide
Federal agencies, defence-adjacent organisations, research institutes and the panel suppliers that serve them. ISM-aligned, DTA Digital Service Standard-aware.
Explore Canberra
Tourism, healthtech, e-commerce and D2C, education, and a film cluster around Village Roadshow Studios. AEST year-round.
Explore Gold Coast
Healthtech, hospitality, agribusiness, education and a growing tech sector between Caloundra and Noosa.
Explore Sunshine Coast
Antarctic and Southern Ocean research, premium food, renewables and tourism — mostly run by owner-operators. A Bass Strait flight away.
Explore Hobart
Defence (operational, non-classified), offshore oil and gas, Indigenous services, tourism and NT Government. Async-first cadence and longer on-site blocks.
Explore Darwin
Banking, B2B SaaS, healthcare, logistics and retail. NZ-aware delivery — invoicing in NZD where it helps, familiar with the NZ Privacy Act 2020.
Explore Auckland
NZ Government, fintech around Xero, the Wētā ecosystem and panel suppliers. NZISM-aware, accessibility-by-default, on the same working day as the Beehive.
Explore Wellington
Agritech (AgResearch, Lincoln, Halter), aerospace (Rocket Lab origin city), manufacturing and B2B SaaS. Engineering culture is real, the precincts are walkable.
Explore Christchurch
The agritech and dairy engine of New Zealand — DairyNZ, Fonterra, Gallagher, AgResearch, LIC. Manufacturing, food production and a growing scale-up scene.
Explore Hamilton
Six product-and-engineering services that run on the same model in every city we work in. Per-stack engineering pages (Laravel, React, Node, Frontend, Backend) live separately for buyers who think about the build at that level.
Designers and engineers working as one team to take a product from validated idea to launched build — no handoff, no two-vendor relay.
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Schema-first, contract-driven APIs that hold up as your product, integrations and team grow — REST, GraphQL and gRPC where it fits.
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Tokens, components, documentation and governance that scale with your organisation — the shared language between design and engineering.
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A working prototype, technical recommendations, a build roadmap and a ballpark estimate — in four to six weeks, before engineering spend compounds.
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Research, journey mapping and usability testing that decide what to build and for whom — engineering-ready findings, not 60-page decks.
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Senior engineers embedded in your team, accountable to your tech lead. Same standup, same repo, same sprint — no body-shop framing.
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The sector mix shifts city to city — defence concentrates around Adelaide and Canberra, agritech around Hamilton and Christchurch, fintech around Sydney and Melbourne. These are the verticals where our work concentrates.
Federal agencies in Canberra, NSW, Victorian, Queensland, SA and WA state government, NZ Government across Wellington and the regions. ISM and NZISM-aware, WCAG 2.2 AA from the first component, exit handover as part of the slice.
Banking and super in Sydney CBD/Barangaroo and Melbourne, regional banking in Brisbane (Suncorp, BoQ, QBE), and the Xero-anchored fintech cluster in Wellington and Auckland. APRA-aware, audit trails by default.
Parkville and BioMed City precincts in Melbourne and Adelaide, Westmead and Garvan in Sydney, Royal Brisbane and Princess Alexandra hospitals, Te Whatu Ora and the regional networks across NZ. FHIR, HL7 and OpenEHR-aware.
The Waikato dairy engine, Canterbury agritech (Halter, AgResearch, Lincoln), Adelaide wine country (Barossa, McLaren Vale, Coonawarra), and a long tail of growers, makers and exporters across both countries.
The defence cluster around Adelaide (DSTG, ASC, BAE, Lockheed Martin), the Australian Space Agency at Lot Fourteen, federal defence-adjacent work in Canberra. Operational, non-classified — partner-prime arrangements when classification is in scope.
Mining and resources in Perth and Brisbane, oil and gas around Darwin and the North West Shelf, marine and defence at Henderson, and the renewables story in Tasmania. Operations software, traceability and field-service product.
The Cremorne–Richmond scale-up alley in Melbourne, Surry Hills and Pyrmont in Sydney, TechnologyOne and the Brisbane SaaS cluster, and the Xero-led ecosystem in Wellington and Auckland. The engineering teams behind the platforms.
Group of Eight universities across the Australian capitals, the new Adelaide consolidation, AUT, Auckland, Massey, Victoria of Wellington, Canterbury and Lincoln in NZ. Admin, research-data and student-experience platforms.
Slice it. Ship it. Measure it. Hand it over. Every engagement runs through the same four moves — local context shapes how we travel, where we run workshops and which procurement framework we work to, but the method is consistent.
Read the system, the dashboards and the on-call history. Talk to your engineers and the people closest to your users.
Agree the first slice on a single page — scope, success metric, Definition of Done, risks. Reviewed with your team, not handed to them.
Pair, review, test, deploy. The slice goes to production behind a feature flag with the observability and runbook your team will need.
Walk your team through the code, infrastructure and runbook. Decide together whether to scope the next slice — no contract pressure either way.
Australia and New Zealand. We are headquartered in Melbourne, with engineers working from across the AU and NZ working day. We are not an offshore delivery floor operating under an AU domain — the engineers writing the code are the ones in your standup.
All Australian capitals (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart, Darwin), the Queensland coast (Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast), and the four largest New Zealand centres (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton). For each city we have a dedicated page with the local industry, precinct and procurement context.
AEDT/AEST during Australian business hours, with full working-day overlap for AWST (Perth — async-first cadence), ACDT/ACST (Adelaide and Darwin — 30-minute offset) and NZDT/NZST (NZ — two-hour offset). The engineer who wrote the code is in the meeting that reviews it, in your hours.
Yes — for kickoffs, workshops, architecture walkthroughs, defence-prime stakeholder sessions, on-site research and accessibility audits. We plan in two-to-three day blocks rather than single-day fly-ins. Most engagements run remote with on-site at the moments that move the work along.
Yes — most of our engagements work this way. Our engineers join your standup, your repo, your CI and your sprint cadence under their own names. They report to your tech lead, not a vendor account manager. When the engagement ends, your team has the code and the institutional knowledge.
Yes — the operational, non-classified surface area. We are familiar with the ISM, IRAP-aligned practice, the DTA Digital Service Standard, the Australian Government Design System, NZISM, the All-of-Government cloud and digital-services panels, and WCAG 2.2 AA. Classified work is partner-prime only — we are upfront about that on day one.
Most engagements begin within one to two weeks of the initial conversation. A two-week Slice Discovery — a fixed-scope audit with a recommended first slice, roadmap and estimate — usually starts faster, sometimes the same week.
You do. All code, schemas, infrastructure-as-code, tests, runbooks, design files and documentation belong entirely to your organisation from day one. Repositories live in your GitHub or Azure DevOps org. No proprietary tooling, no licensed components, no lock-in.
A two-week Slice Discovery turns a system you already run — anywhere in AU or NZ — into a scoped first slice, with a roadmap, an estimate and no contract pressure.